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I highly recommend reading (Studying the language and structure in non-programmers’ solutions to programming problems (2001))[http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~pane/ftp/Pa
by lsiebert 10y ago
I highly recommend reading (Studying the language and structure in
non-programmers’ solutions to programming problems (2001))[http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~pane/ftp/PaneRatanamahatanaMyers2001.pdf http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~pane/ftp/PaneRatanamahatanaMyers2001....]
Basically they ask a bunch of non programmers to describe how a computer should do discrete tasks in PacMan. They also cite a number of older but relevant papers on this topic.